Gaff-hook



(ModeL) GAPF HOOK.

No. 481,463. Patented Aug. 23, 1892.

i as *1 WITNESSES INVENTOH famg I M UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ALFRED G. BENSON, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

GAFF-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,463, dated. August23, 1892.

Application filed June 1, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED G. BENSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gamden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey,have invented a new and useful Safety Gaff-Hook,of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in gait-hooks, either for fishingor hoisting purposes or where an attachment can be securely and quicklymade, or vice versa; and the object of my improvement is to provide asafety self-locking gaff-hook for said purposes.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings,in which Figure 1 is a side view of a gaff hook, showing itsattendant parts in section. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through theline ab, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of the jaws of the vibrating armfrom point of hook mounted on sleeve.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

A is a gaff-hook having a screw end 0 for engaging with the end of a rodor other suitable device.

B is a sliding sleeve on the shank of the hook A, which is embraced byanother sleeve 0, with projecting jaws D, in which is pivoted an arm E,provided at its outer end with a safety-socket F, in which is receivedthe end or point cl of the gait-hook A. The jaws D Serial No. 3 94, 622; (Model\) are solidly connected at the bottom to form a shoulderf,Fig. 3, for supporting the arm E, and preventing any downward vibrationfrom a horizontal position.

6 is a locking-stub of the gaff-hook A, which works in an angular slotof the sleeve B in such manner that when the sleeve is slipped onto theshank of the gaff-hook the stub e slides in thevertical part of the slotand takes into the horizontal part of the same by the turning of thesleeve by which the two are locked together. At the same time the stub eis entering the vertical part of the slot the end or point of thegaff-hook is entering the socket, which when locked is firmly heldagainst said end or point of hook by the arm E, resting on the shoulderfbe-

